The White Horse Inn
Duns Tew's 17th-century village pub is the sort of place you'd walk past and never guess how well you're about to eat. Ten minutes from the cottage, it's where we go when we want a proper supper without any fuss.
Duns Tew's 17th-century village pub is the sort of place you'd walk past and never guess how well you're about to eat. Ten minutes from the cottage, it's where we go when we want a proper supper without any fuss.
The White Horse sits on the quiet main street of Duns Tew, a small village just off the road between Ledwell and the Bartons. From the outside it looks like any well-kept country pub: stone walls, low windows, a couple of benches catching the last of the evening sun. Inside, the rooms are warm and uncomplicated. Flagstone floors, a good fire in winter, real ales on the hand pulls. Nothing designed, nothing trying too hard. The kind of place where the dog settles under the table before you've ordered your first drink.
What sets the White Horse apart is the kitchen. The menu changes daily, built around whatever the local farms and suppliers have brought in that morning. One evening it might be slow-braised ox cheek with root vegetables; another, a piece of fish so fresh it barely needs more than butter and lemon. Portions are generous, the cooking is confident without being showy, and the prices feel fair for what arrives. It's not a gastropub in the polished sense. It's a village pub where someone in the kitchen genuinely cares about feeding people well. Book ahead if you can, especially at weekends. Walk-ins are possible on quieter nights, but it's popular for good reason.
“The White Horse is our go-to midweek supper spot. No nonsense, just really good food in a proper pub. We never leave disappointed.”
All of this on the doorstep, and your own thatched cottage to come home to. Sleeps seven, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse.